Azusa Nakano‘s legion of fans has been celebrating her November 11th birthday with more enthusiasm than ever, crashing TBS’s site repeatedly in their frenzy to get at her birthday goods, and flooding the Internet with their many tributes.

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I always wondered what would have happend if Ayana Taketatsu hadn’t gotten teh role of Azusa, if she would have continued doing more roles like Ako from Kiss x Sis or maybe even get an H-game debut. Ooh now that I think about it…I really want to hear her voice in an eroge…heh heh heh.

I don’t know which is funnier, the people that can’t tolerate others having different interests than them, or the hardcore fans taking up pitchforks to anyone that disagrees.
This is why we can’t have nice things.

When you wish someone “a happy birthday,” you do it to make them feel special. Loved. Cared for. Whichever. You do it and they normally respond in kind because they *usually* have some sort of friendship going with you and value your being in some way.

Cartoons do *NONE* of this. They sit there. Unassuming. Unfeeling. Incapable in independent or SENTIENT thought.

So why, WHY do people continue to wish these “things” a “happy birthday” when the feeling will never be reciprocated?

Heyyyy you baked a cake for that character on your lcd screen. TOO BAD SHE CAN’T FRIGGIN’ EAT IT DUE TO NOT BEING ALIVE.

“You can enjoy it , love it but have the sincerity and objectivity to accept moe and kyoani dont mean = “best ever” “masterpiece” ”

Objectivity has nothing to do with this. There is no objective standard by which to EVER decide that one anime is “better” than another. What is “best” is inherently a subjective decision on the part of the individual.

So when a moe-lover says that they think moe is the “best ever” what they really are saying is that moe is best FOR THEM. When you (and so many others) say moe sucks, you mean moe is not the best FOR YOU.

All these lists and polls are simply opinion polls, with no objectivity present or implied.

So when I say that I find K-On to be the best anime that I have ever seen (and I’ve been around since the Dirty Pair days, son; no, the original ones), that is only my opinion, and you don’t need to take it as an attack on your own opinion. It’s perfectly okay if you don’t like it. But you don’t need to crap on those who do.

So let the Azu-nyan devotees have their fun. (Although I believe that Mugi-chan is clearly the better choice.) (that’s a *joke*, you know… remember what those are?)

Nothing wrong haviong moe charactres there, some of us may not like it but they made their mark in anime history for good or bad.

Noe the issue here is that moe/fanservice lovers are NEVER onbective and will only rank their series targette at them as “best” “top” “masterpiece” “greatest”

This is one of the biggest issues with moe lovers, how many lists have we seen here when they rank the top best series/heroines, etc, etc, and they are only moe and fanservice series/characters listed?

When you have equal ground and take into account ALL fans and not just certain types, then you have balanced lists like FUJIS TV 50, theirs no WAY IN HELL Haruhi and K-ON, Madoka can as a series or characters can be top any objective ranks, that these series appear around the middle is fair enough sound extremely more real like labeling them automatically and blindly “best ever” in any ranks.

At this point I just say that K-on did to slice of life anime what Haruhi did for anime as a whole back on 2006. KyoAni definitely has people that prove that there are still people who can truly take something to a level beyond expectation in their work.

Having just finished Hyouka, I had to rewatch parts of the last episode because fucking museum quality background art distracted the hell out of me.